Lennard writes:
With a coming honeyflow in mind, does a colony with little
brood/nurse bees and a lot of foragers produce more honey
than a colony with a lot of brood and nurse bees?
Will the first invest in stores or in population build up?
Which one would you prefer?

Reply:
Now here you are into another scenario again. For even a
well mated queen transferred quickly into a hive needing
help will still be giving a good queen to a hive short on
brood and therefor stronger force with foraging bees. It is
also giving of a queen from within your own operation thus
transferring around.

Here giving extra sealed brood with accompanying nurse bees
on frames, to the weak along with the queen would equalize
the situation whether cell, virgin, or mated laying or
unlaying queen really, Wouldn't you think? Still equalizing
with local stock on hand. Just basic workup procedures for
a coming flow everyone does, right?

Respectfully submitted,

Dee A. Lusby
Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper
Moyza, Arizona
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/





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